My shield warrior cheat sheet

[Kardinaal]

Shield warrior cheat sheet
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A collection of some math, skill info, defender set info, shield armour, breakpoints… A work in progress (see comments with !!!), also needs better formatting. With some links in the bottom as a tip of the hat to the people providing sources .


Blocking math:
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Q: How does Block work?
A: If you Block an attack, 75% of the damage is mitigated. You can only Block attacks while a shield is equipped. You can block 95% of incoming attacks max. This is after any dodge and parry (with 5% parry standard you block 90,25% of all incoming attacks).

Block chance = block rate / 4000



Skill and defender overview
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Sword and Board:
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+800 blockrate (does not show in character sheet)
Shield armour x2

Shield slam triggered:
- 25% of block
- critical block

Critical block is block% above 100%? Between 100 and 200%?

Shield slam does 1000% shield armour damage to up to 6 targets

!!!! To check:

crit block and 25% stacks how?
How does crit block work? !!!!




Shield Block:
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+ 4000 blockrate
Triggers one deadly throw every 6 seconds (mentioned in defender 6 bonus, from 6s to 1s)



Deadly throw:
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Performs 7 attacks for 2000% weapon damage
Total shield armour gets added to weapon damage




Defender set bonuses:
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2 pieces (simplified):

Casting charge, leap, battle rage or whirlwind gives 4 charges of fortress of steel, each healing 6%.


4 pieces:

Shield slam damage +400% (1400% total)


6 pieces:

- deadly throw on block 1s (down from 6s)
- 100% of blockrate (char screen + 4800) added to power



Shield armour:
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Shield armour is used in damage calculations for shield slam and deadly throw.

Consists off (perfect 77 values):

Base shield armour (2000)
diamond (200)
armour stat (275)

Percentile boosts from:

Norgrim: 15%
Tough as nails: 20%
armour cp: 25%
Sword and board lvl 10: 100%


!!! To check:
Other possible sources: tortoise enchant (not according to forums)!!!




Casting breakpoints:
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Purely based on AR as gains from alacrity are
impossible to quantify.

Total ar is ar from char screen + integralas (500) + intense training (150)


Base cooldowns for a warrior with all skills lvl 10:
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Shield block: 28,4s
Shockwave: 16,09s
Whirlwind / charge / battle rage: 14,20s
Deadly throw: 6,62s
Jump: 9,46s



Breakpoints:
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base ar:

Shield block and battle rage have cast times below 30s, meaning you can use both every talisman of storms / power proc


1500 ar:

50% uptime for battle rage
30% uptime for charge crit rate buff
47,5% uptime for leap 25% dmg redux buff
25% uptime for shield block


3000 ar (guestimate):

55% uptime for battle rage
33,3% uptime for charge crit rate buff
50% uptime for leap 25% dmg redux buff
27,7% uptime for shield block
100% uptime for shockwave heal

[Nhat]

Brilliant Diamond add 200, not 50, and it also get boosted by S&B to 400 - this is the reason to ALWAYS socket Shield with Diamond.

Recall Deadly Throw damage is based on adjusted Shield Armour value, including gemstone... Test done a while ago, hopefully nothing have changed, but also easy enough to retest...

There's also Armor CP, up to 25%

[Kardinaal]

Thanks for confirming and correcting Nhat. And for your files. I did a quick check and adjusted the post. That’s a lot less stuff to test allready.

[Kardinaal]

Did a change on the blocking math section to include 5% standard parry cause I keep forgetting it.